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Coworkers Purchase Car for UPS Employee Who Walks 11 Miles to Work

Coworkers Purchase Car for UPS Employee Who Walks 11 Miles to Work

An Arkansas man who walked 11 miles to and from work each day to support his young daughter is trading in his walking shoes for a set of wheels thanks to his coworkers.

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For the past seven months, Trenton Lewis, a 21-year-old single father, walked 5.5 miles each way from his residence to work, sometimes getting up at midnight to make it for his 4 a.m. shift at the UPS center in Little Rock, WISH reported.

Lewis said his daughter was his primary motivation for making the long treks to work by foot each day.

“I wanted to be with my daughter, to be able to support her. I wanted to be a father,” Lewis said, adding that he was never late to his job.

Lewis did not tell his UPS coworkers about his trek, but his coworker Kenneth Bryant took notice and wanted to help, KARK reported.

“If someone has that type of determination, I’d be willing to help them,” Bryant said. “We just wanted to lend somebody a helping hand.”

Bryant began asking other coworkers to see if he could get them to pitch in some money to purchase Lewis a car.

“It caught on like wildfire,” Bryant said of his idea.

Once Bryant and several others raised enough money, they surprised the 21-year-old with keys to a car, which cost around $2,000.

2 Comments

Vilma

February 12, 2018 at 9:09 pm

He is very adorable young father.his story is very touching in behalf of his lovely daugther he sacrifice to walk 11miles a day just to save money for his daughter..im so impress.thanks god for the generosity of his co worker.i salute you for your help..

Good people can do good things. Kudos to these UPS workers. If ‘we’, as human beings, see a need ‘we’ should attempt to alleviate that need from our neighbor’s life. Lift up your fellow human being, extend a helping hand, not a hand out but a hand up.